GENIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geniality mean? 

• GENIALITY (noun)
  The noun GENIALITY has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

  Familiarity information: GENIALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

affability; affableness; amiability; amiableness; bonhomie; geniality

Hypernyms ("geniality" is a kind of...):

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geniality"):

condescendingness; condescension (affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank)

mellowness (geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana)

sweetness and light (a mild reasonableness)

Derivation:

genial (diffusing warmth and friendliness)

 Context examples 

The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Mr. Henry Baker, I believe,” said he, rising from his armchair and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he could so readily assume.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's pretense of animation merge into reality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He felt like a prince returned from exile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)